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Subject: Re: Does anyone know the hardware for the X3D match?

Author: enrico carrisco

Date: 11:37:20 11/06/03

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On November 06, 2003 at 11:03:33, Vincent Lejeune wrote:

>
>I just ask on the chessninja forum :
>http://www.chessninja.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=10;t=000079;p=3
>
>and Mig respond very kindly :
>
>Mig
>Member # 1
>Icon 1 posted 06 November, 2003 10:11 November 06, 2003 08:11 AM
>
>We (speaking in my ChessBase role today..) have the machine now and the full
>specs will be released at http://www.x3dchess.com very soon, probably today.
>
>I believe five-piece tablebases are all that are allowed in the rules, something
>that has been true in the last two big man-machine matches I was part of
>(Kramnik-Fritz in Bahrain and Kasparov-Junior last January). Not that the
>currently available six-piece sets would be very practical anyway.

It hasn't been updated on the x3dchess site yet, but I'm a bit anxious to find
out after I did find the following:

"The X3D Fritz Garry Kasparov is facing is the strongest computer chess machine
ever created."

Quite a bold statement.  :)

-elc.



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